24 Peterborough City Council meetings cancelled in 2025
24 out of 111 have been cancelled
Last updated 16th Dec 2025
Just under a quarter of Peterborough City Council meetings were cancelled in 2025.
A total of 111 full council, cabinet and committee meetings were scheduled from January to December — including extraordinary meetings — but 24 were cancelled in total while 87 went ahead.
The majority of these cancellations came between the months of June and September, which saw 16 scrapped from the diary.
The 2025/26 civic year began on May 19 when long-serving Werrington councillor Judy Fox was chosen to be the next Mayor of Peterborough.
On the same day, the council’s leadership and committee structures were also supposed to be confirmed, but the relevant items were postponed until June 18 when a motion of no confidence was put forward in an attempt to oust the Labour administration.
The motion did not pass, but the delay caused seven council committee meetings to be cancelled in June.
Following this, the shock resignation of Labour council leader Dennis Jones on September 4 brought all cabinet member and committee appointments to an end, causing several more cancellations throughout the month.
Council meetings can be called off for a number of reasons, including emergencies, significant disruptions, or if key people are unavailable.
According to the council’s constitution, a meeting may be postponed or cancelled in extenuating circumstances once the proper officer has given notice and summons of a meeting.
It states: “Any postponement or cancellation must be with the agreement of mayor/chairman and in consultation with group leaders/group representatives. Any meeting may be cancelled if there is insufficient business.”
A spokesperson for the city council said it had been “far from a typical year”.
They added: “Meetings will only ever be postponed if there are legal or democratic reasons that they cannot be held and this is a right and proper process to ensure that the proper decision making can be carried out.
“As we and other neighbouring authorities continue to work towards Local Government Reorganisation, it will be necessary for additional extraordinary meetings to be added into the council calendar to ensure decision making around this process could take place in an efficient and timely manner. ”
The final meeting of 2025 is a meeting of the ruling cabinet on December 16.
There will then be a break over the Christmas period until week commencing January 12.